Kali Yuga
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”)
Proper noun
[edit]- In Hinduism, the fourth of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.